Alex's swim journal

100 miles...

100 mies is the swimming milestone I hit for the year this week. Took me about a month and a half longer to do it this year than last, but I'm starting to feel a little better about my [slow] build-up now. Today the YMCA was closed for Easter observance of course, but Thursday thru Saturday I managed to get in some good workouts in the pool: 3000-3500 each day. I'll summarize my main sets here:

20 x 100: Thursday's main set was a 20 x 100 on 1:45. My times were slow, I averaged 1:27 probably on the first 5 or 6, then I was working hard to keep it under 1:30 until the last 5 or so in which 1:31 seemed to be the theme... even a couple of 1:32s in there (my 1650 pace at state last month). The goal is to keep this set at 1:25 or better on a 1:40 interval when I'm back in shape.

Broken 1650: Friday's main set was a 1650, swum as 3 x 200 on 3:20, 6 x 100 on 1:40, 6 x 50 on :50, 6 x 25 on :25... I felt pretty strong through this whole set. My 200s were right around 3:02, my 100s, 1:29-1:30, the 50s, :42-:43, and the 25s all around :21. Total time was 27:25, but total swim time would have been under 25:00 (the short term goal for 1650).

50s Day: Yesterday I did a couple of set I hadn't done in a long time. 10 x 50 fly on 1:10, and 10 x 50 back on 1:10. The back started slow and faded quickly, but the fly 50s were consistent at :48, even a some of :47s; the last two were :49, so I cut the set off at 10... eventually I'd like to build up to 20 x 50 at that target pace of :47-:48, and still have the energy to come back with a decent set of backstroke.